Wherever you are in the world, time is running out for treating gonorrhea

CNN ^ | Tue May 15, 2018

[BenLurkin]

22-year-old was living in West Hollywood, hoping to launch his acting career.

Los Angeles had a thriving a gay scene where King, for the first time, could embrace his sexuality freely. He frequented bathhouses and also met men in dance clubs and along the bustling sidewalks. There was lots of sex to be had.

Like a few years earlier, the doctor gave him a handful of antibiotics to take for a few days that would clear up the infection. It wasn't a big deal. In fact, as King describes it, it was "simply an errand to run."

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When King picked up gonorrhea again in the 1990s, he was greatly relieved that treatment was now just one dose.

Penicillin was no longer effective, but ciprofloxacin was now the recommended treatment and it required only one dose. In King's eyes, getting gonorrhea was even less of a hassle.

But this was actually a symptom of treatment regimens starting to fail.

The bacteria Neisseria gonorrheae was on the way to developing resistance to nearly every drug ever used to treat it.

[fwdude]

Didn’t know that STD’s were ‘homophobic,’ did we?

[tom h]

"That should read “you made your bed, now pee in it”"

I also prefer the old adage, "When you lie down with dogs, don't be surprised if you get fleas."

The article is so blase about the New York City bathhouses but they really were as despicable and hedonistic as the worse of the excesses of the ancient Romans.

[polymuser]

[Bonemaker]

“One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster ....”

[NetAddicted]

OMG! I didn’t realize that. Basically, if you’re homosexual, you have a(n?) STD. And, now, STD’s are becoming antibiotic-resistant. Oh, well, G-d told them what not to do.

[Morpheus2009]

STDs may very well become like The Borg from Star Trek: Adaptation to the medicines used to treat them.

[TChad]

Basically, if you’re homosexual, you have a(n?) STD.

And if you're bisexual, the women you date are at serious risk.